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The celebration of Wing Chun’s unsung hero starts Oct. 14, 2016

Northern River Productions and Wing Chun Illustrated Magazine are proud to announce the release of TWO NEW, FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY FILMS directed by the acclaimed author, filmmaker and Bruce Lee historian, John Little.

After almost 4 years in the making, with filming done around the world, and featuring exclusive interviews with individuals who knew, learnt from or admired the man, Wong Shun Leung: The King of Talking Hands and its companion film, Th...

Keep it Real

Drilling the Basics

By David Peterson

It never ceases to amaze me how people are always seeking some kind of “advanced” training, or “secret” skills in their quest for martial arts proficiency. Year after year, it’s the same story as students come and go in my school: “When do we learn the “advanced” stuff?” or “What are the “secret” techniques?” …same old questions, time and time again.

What a pity that some people just can’t accept that it is SIMPLICITY that makes Wing Chun the eff...

Moon Pointing Finger

The Muk Yan Jong Is NOT for Dummies

by David Peterson

There is a very simple, but extremely important and much-overlooked fact that few people practising Wing Chun seem to understand about the ‘Muk Yan Jong’ form – it must NOT ever be viewed in purely “black & white” terms with regard to concepts and/or applications. The ‘Muk Yan Jong’ is a complex, multi-faceted training tool that has many “shades of grey” and chief amongst its requirements is the need to have a very active imagination in order t...

Sifu David Peterson

Principal Instructor of ‘WSL Ving Tsun Combat Science-Malaysia’

David Peterson, 60, has been training in the Chinese martial arts since 1973. He became a student of Sifu Wong Shun Leung after travelling to Hong Kong in 1983. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, where he majored in Chinese studies, and a former teacher of the Chinese language for over thirty years, having taught a...

Press Room

- text of the speech given at the '1st World Ving Tsun Conference' in Hong Kong, November 1999

by David Peterson

There is an old expression in English that goes, "He couldn't see the forest for the trees", and sadly, this seems to be the case for many of my Ving Tsun brothers and sisters. Not that I am in any way suggesting that anyone is wrong, or that I have somehow stumbled upon all the answe...